Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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I didn't know much about golf growing up.
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You might say that Richard Wagner was the Queen Victoria of Europe. He had musical children everywhere!
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The funny thing is I'm not even Latin. I was constantly getting Latin roles, and I was like, I even was nominated for an award, and I was like, 'Let them know at the NAACP, the first white woman. Let them know I'm totally grateful, but I'm not Latin. I can't do that. I play Latin.'
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We are very private, so we decided from early on that we will keep the press and editors and everybody out of our house.
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They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising.
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Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
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I would say that the majority of the people I work with are Swedish, very unknown producers and writers but so talented.
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It is rare for a novel to have an ending as good as its middle and beginning...
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It was inevitable that I should become a Socialist ultra, a Blanquist, indeed a communist. I carried about a medallion with Marx’s head on it in my pocket. I think I regarded it as a sort of talisman… Marx had a profound critical intelligence and was in some sense even a prophet.
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The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.
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I prefer love scenes to be shot up close with a lot of focus on eyes and mouths. Otherwise it can feel uncomfortable and voyeuristic.
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Empowering innovations transform something that is complicated and expensive into something that is so much more simple and affordable that a much larger population can enjoy it.
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I love playing. The keyboard is my journal.
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I wanted to be a complete player, and I felt like the dunks started to overshadow other parts of my game.
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If insurance companies paid for lifestyle-management classes, they would save huge sums of money. We need to see that alternative medicine is now mainstream.
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I've never had trouble finding inspiration for new songs, no matter what I'm doing.
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It's dangerous to get too far from what they identify you with.
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Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential and generate more public welfare.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and 'consciousness' cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is the evolution of his will, and 'will' cannot evolve involuntarily.
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The start of the day is often the best time to get things done. This is somewhat related to willpower.
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'Made' is about opening your heart to people who deserve your love and not trying to turn other people into something that they're not: not trying to save people who don't want to be saved. If you go down that dark path, you're not going to end up doing any good.
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Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all.
